Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
H. Gardner Ackley |
Economist |
30-Jun-1915 |
12-Feb-1998 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 |
Joe Adcock |
Baseball |
30-Oct-1927 |
3-May-1999 |
Milwaukee Braves First Baseman |
Eddie Albert |
Actor |
22-Apr-1906 |
26-May-2005 |
Oliver on Green Acres |
Mabel Albertson |
Actor |
24-Jul-1901 |
28-Sep-1982 |
Darrin's mother on Bewitched |
Robert W. Anderson |
Playwright |
28-Apr-1917 |
9-Feb-2009 |
Tea and Sympathy |
Dana Andrews |
Actor |
1-Jan-1909 |
17-Dec-1992 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
William Asher |
Film Director |
8-Aug-1921 |
16-Jul-2012 |
Beach Blanket Bingo |
Brooke Astor |
Philanthropist |
30-Mar-1902 |
13-Aug-2007 |
Heiress, philanthropist |
George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
Patty Berg |
Golf |
13-Feb-1918 |
10-Sep-2006 |
Winner of 15 major titles |
Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
Rudolf Bing |
Business |
9-Jan-1902 |
2-Sep-1997 |
Manager of the NY Metropolitan Opera, 1950-72 |
Billie Bird |
Actor |
28-Feb-1908 |
27-Nov-2002 |
The Odd Couple |
Toe Blake |
Hockey |
21-Aug-1912 |
17-May-1995 |
Montreal Canadiens, Hall of Famer |
Fanny Blankers-Koen |
Track and Field |
26-Apr-1918 |
25-Jan-2004 |
Four gold medals in 1948 |
Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
Charles Bronson |
Actor |
3-Nov-1921 |
30-Aug-2003 |
Death Wish |
Acquanetta |
Actor |
17-Jul-1921 |
16-Aug-2004 |
Captive Wild Woman |
Abe Burrows |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1910 |
17-May-1985 |
Co-Author, Guys and Dolls |
Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
Carroll Campbell |
Politician |
24-Jul-1940 |
7-Dec-2005 |
Governor of South Carolina, 1987-95 |
Glen Campbell |
Country Musician |
22-Apr-1936 |
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Rhinestone Cowboy |
Hugo Claus |
Author |
5-Apr-1929 |
19-Mar-2008 |
The Sorrow of Belgium |
Imogene Coca |
Actor |
18-Nov-1908 |
2-Jun-2001 |
Your Show of Shows |
Lois Collier |
Actor |
21-Mar-1919 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie |
Perry Como |
Singer |
18-May-1912 |
12-May-2001 |
It's Impossible |
Aaron Copland |
Composer |
14-Nov-1900 |
2-Dec-1990 |
Fanfare for the Common Man |
Lou Creekmur |
Football |
22-Jan-1927 |
5-Jul-2009 |
Detroit Lions, Hall of Famer |
Ann Curtis |
Swimmer |
6-Mar-1926 |
26-Jun-2012 |
Olympic swimmer |
Lili Damita |
Actor |
19-Jul-1901 |
21-Mar-1994 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Raymond Davis, Jr. |
Scientist |
14-Oct-1914 |
31-May-2006 |
Detected solar neutrinos |
Willem de Kooning |
Painter |
24-Apr-1904 |
19-Mar-1997 |
Abstract expressionist |
Bob Denard |
Military |
7-Apr-1929 |
13-Oct-2007 |
French mercenary |
Harry S. Dent, Sr. |
Government |
21-Feb-1930 |
28-Sep-2007 |
Devised Nixon's Southern Strategy |
Clive Donner |
Film Director |
21-Jan-1926 |
7-Sep-2010 |
What's New, Pussycat |
James Doohan |
Actor |
3-Mar-1920 |
20-Jul-2005 |
Scotty on Star Trek |
Richard Eastham |
Actor |
22-Jun-1916 |
10-Jul-2005 |
Not with My Wife, You Don't! |
Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
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Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
Peter Falk |
Actor |
16-Sep-1927 |
23-Jun-2011 |
Detective Columbo |
Tom Fears |
Football |
3-Dec-1922 |
4-Jan-2000 |
NFL Hall of Fame Wide Receiver |
Geraldine Fitzgerald |
Actor |
24-Nov-1913 |
17-Jul-2005 |
Wuthering Heights |
Maureen Forrester |
Singer |
25-Jul-1930 |
16-Jun-2010 |
Contralto, interpreter of Mahler |
Dan Fortmann |
Football |
11-Apr-1916 |
23-May-1995 |
NFL Hall of Fame Guard |
Arlene Francis |
Actor |
20-Oct-1907 |
31-May-2001 |
What's My Line? |
Orville L. Freeman |
Politician |
9-May-1918 |
20-Feb-2003 |
Governor of Minnesota, 1955-61 |
Rikki Fulton |
Comic |
15-Apr-1924 |
28-Jan-2004 |
Scotland's beloved comedian |
Charles A. Gabriel |
Military |
21-Jan-1928 |
4-Sep-2003 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1982-86 |
Annie Girardot |
Actor |
25-Oct-1931 |
28-Feb-2011 |
Rocco and His Brothers |
Barry Goldwater |
Politician |
1-Jan-1909 |
29-May-1998 |
US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87 |
Bruce J. Graham |
Architect |
1-Dec-1925 |
6-Mar-2010 |
Architect of the Sears Tower |
H. Tracy Hall |
Chemist |
20-Oct-1919 |
25-Jul-2008 |
Synthetic diamonds |
Mark Harris |
Novelist |
19-Nov-1922 |
30-May-2007 |
Bang the Drum Slowly |
John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
Rita Hayworth |
Actor |
17-Oct-1918 |
14-May-1987 |
Gilda |
Charlton Heston |
Actor |
4-Oct-1923 |
5-Apr-2008 |
The Ten Commandments |
Jesse Hibbs |
Film Director |
11-Jan-1906 |
4-Feb-1985 |
To Hell and Back |
Arthur Hill |
Actor |
1-Aug-1922 |
26-Oct-2006 |
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law |
Stanley Hiller, Jr. |
Inventor |
15-Nov-1924 |
20-Apr-2006 |
Helicopter designer |
Stephen Horn |
Politician |
31-May-1931 |
17-Feb-2011 |
Congressman from California, 1993-2003 |
Ken Hughes |
Film Director |
19-Jan-1922 |
28-Apr-2001 |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
Ingemar Johansson |
Boxing |
22-Sep-1932 |
30-Jan-2009 |
World Heavyweight Champion, 1959-60 |
Princess Juliana |
Royalty |
30-Apr-1909 |
20-Mar-2004 |
Crown Princess of the Netherlands |
Claude Jutra |
Film Director |
11-Mar-1930 |
5-Nov-1986 |
Mon Oncle Antoine |
Charles K. Kao |
Scientist |
4-Nov-1933 |
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Fiber optics |
Herman Keiser |
Golf |
7-Oct-1914 |
24-Dec-2003 |
Winner, 1946 Masters Tournament |
Allen Klein |
Business |
18-Dec-1931 |
4-Jul-2009 |
Prehensile ABKCO executive |
Thomas S. Kleppe |
Politician |
1-Jul-1919 |
2-Mar-2007 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1975-77 |
Philip M. Klutznick |
Government |
9-Jul-1907 |
14-Aug-1999 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1980-81 |
Howard W. Koch |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Apr-1916 |
16-Feb-2001 |
The Manchurian Candidate |
Alberto Lattuada |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1913 |
3-Jul-2005 |
Stay As You Are |
Halldór Laxness |
Author |
23-Apr-1902 |
8-Feb-1998 |
Iceland's Bell |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Film Director |
15-Oct-1900 |
13-Sep-1987 |
Quo Vadis? |
Edward H. Levi |
Government |
26-Jun-1911 |
7-Mar-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1975-77 |
Beatrice Lillie |
Actor |
29-May-1894 |
20-Jan-1989 |
Too True To Be Good |
Charlotte MacLeod |
Novelist |
12-Nov-1922 |
14-Jan-2005 |
Mystery novelist, Peter Shandy Series |
James R. Mann |
Politician |
27-Apr-1920 |
20-Dec-2010 |
Congressman from South Carolina, 1969-79 |
Archer J. P. Martin |
Chemist |
1-Mar-1910 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Partition chromatography |
Bill Mauldin |
Cartoonist |
29-Oct-1921 |
22-Jan-2003 |
WWII cartoonist, Willie and Joe |
Karen McCarthy |
Politician |
18-Mar-1947 |
5-Oct-2010 |
Congresswoman from Missouri, 1995-2005 |
Evan Mecham |
Politician |
12-May-1924 |
22-Feb-2008 |
Governor of Arizona, 1987-88 |
George Meeker |
Actor |
5-Mar-1904 |
19-Aug-1984 |
History Is Made at Night |
Marian Mercer |
Actor |
26-Nov-1935 |
27-Apr-2011 |
Nancy Beebe on It's a Living |
Burgess Meredith |
Actor |
16-Nov-1908 |
9-Sep-1997 |
Rocky and Grumpy Old Men |
Jack Metcalf |
Politician |
30-Nov-1927 |
15-Mar-2007 |
Congressman from Washington, 1995-2001 |
Vincente Minnelli |
Film Director |
28-Feb-1903 |
25-Jul-1986 |
The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
Dennis Moore |
Politician |
8-Nov-1945 |
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Congressman from Kansas, 1999-2011 |
Carlos J. Moorhead |
Politician |
6-May-1922 |
23-Nov-2011 |
Congressman from California, 1973-97 |
Iris Murdoch |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1919 |
8-Feb-1999 |
The Sea, the Sea |
John Neville |
Actor |
2-May-1925 |
19-Nov-2011 |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen |
Robert Nix, Jr. |
Judge |
13-Jul-1928 |
23-Aug-2003 |
Pennsylvania Chief Justice, 1984-96 |
Dick Nolan |
Football |
26-Mar-1932 |
11-Nov-2007 |
49ers Head Coach, 1968-75 |
Ray Noorda |
Business |
19-Jun-1924 |
9-Oct-2006 |
Former CEO of Novell |
Edmond O'Brien |
Actor |
10-Sep-1915 |
9-May-1985 |
The Great Imposter |
Arthur O'Connell |
Actor |
29-Mar-1908 |
18-May-1981 |
Anatomy of a Murder |
John J. O'Connor III |
Relative |
10-Jan-1930 |
11-Nov-2009 |
Sandra Day O'Connor's husband |
George Oppen |
Poet |
24-Apr-1908 |
7-Jul-1984 |
Objectivist proponent and poet |
Floyd Patterson |
Boxing |
4-Jan-1935 |
11-May-2006 |
Heavyweight champion at age 21 |
François Périer |
Actor |
10-Nov-1919 |
29-Jun-2002 |
Nights of Cabiria |
Val Peterson |
Politician |
18-Jul-1903 |
17-Oct-1983 |
Governor of Nebraska, 1947-53 |
Molly Picon |
Actor |
1-Jun-1898 |
5-Apr-1992 |
Yiddish theatre actress |
Pete Pihos |
Football |
22-Oct-1923 |
16-Aug-2011 |
Hall of Fame End, Philadelphia Eagles |
Laura La Plante |
Actor |
1-Nov-1904 |
14-Oct-1996 |
The Cat and the Canary |
Gilbert Plass |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1922 |
1-Mar-2004 |
Climate change scientist |
Charles O. Porter |
Politician |
4-Apr-1919 |
1-Jan-2006 |
Congressman from Oregon, 1957-61 |
Terry Pratchett |
Novelist |
28-Apr-1948 |
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Discworld sci-fi series |
Otto Preminger |
Film Director |
5-Dec-1906 |
23-Apr-1986 |
Anatomy of a Murder |
Elizabeth Clare Prophet |
Religion |
8-Apr-1939 |
15-Oct-2009 |
Church Universal and Triumphant |
William Proxmire |
Politician |
11-Nov-1915 |
15-Dec-2005 |
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1957-89 |
Martha Raye |
Actor |
27-Aug-1916 |
19-Oct-1994 |
Monsieur Verdoux |
Ronald Reagan |
Head of State |
6-Feb-1911 |
5-Jun-2004 |
40th US President, 1981-89 |
Simone Renant |
Actor |
19-Mar-1911 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Quai des Orfèvres |
Abraham Ribicoff |
Politician |
9-Apr-1910 |
22-Feb-1998 |
Senator and Governor from Connecticut |
Jim Ringo |
Football |
21-Nov-1931 |
19-Nov-2007 |
NFL Hall of Famer |
Eddie Robinson |
Football |
13-Feb-1919 |
3-Apr-2007 |
Grambling Head Coach, 1941-97 |
Sugar Ray Robinson |
Boxing |
3-May-1921 |
12-Apr-1989 |
Welterweight and Middleweight champ |
Norman Rockwell |
Painter |
3-Feb-1894 |
8-Nov-1978 |
Saturday Evening Post artist |
Albert J. Rosenthal |
Educator |
5-Mar-1919 |
17-Mar-2010 |
Dean of Columbia Law School, 1979-84 |
Pierre Schaeffer |
Electronic Musician |
14-Aug-1910 |
19-Aug-1995 |
Inventor of musique concrète |
Simon Scott |
Actor |
21-Sep-1920 |
11-Dec-1991 |
Arnold Slocum on Trapper John, M.D. |
Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
Milton J. Shapp |
Politician |
25-Jun-1912 |
24-Nov-1994 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1971-79 |
Norma Shearer |
Actor |
10-Aug-1902 |
12-Jun-1983 |
The Divorcee |
Don L. Short |
Politician |
22-Jun-1903 |
10-May-1982 |
Congressman from North Dakota, 1959-65 |
Sargent Shriver |
Activist |
9-Nov-1915 |
18-Jan-2011 |
First Director of the Peace Corps |
Irving Shulman |
Author |
21-May-1913 |
23-Mar-1995 |
The Amboy Dukes |
Robert L. F. Sikes |
Politician |
3-Jun-1906 |
28-Sep-1994 |
Congressman from Florida, 1945-79 |
Mel Stewart |
Actor |
19-Sep-1929 |
24-Feb-2002 |
Scarecrow and Mrs. King |
James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
Beatrice Straight |
Actor |
2-Aug-1914 |
7-Apr-2001 |
Network |
Robert W. Straub |
Politician |
6-May-1920 |
27-Nov-2002 |
Governor of Oregon, 1975-79 |
Adolfo Suárez |
Head of State |
25-Sep-1932 |
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Prime Minister of Spain, 1982-91 |
Phyllis Thaxter |
Actor |
20-Nov-1921 |
14-Aug-2012 |
The World of Henry Orient |
Sherman W. Tribbitt |
Politician |
9-Nov-1922 |
14-Aug-2010 |
Governor of Delaware, 1973-77 |
Cyrus Vance |
Government |
27-Mar-1917 |
12-Jan-2002 |
US Secretary of State, 1977-80 |
Bobby Vee |
Singer |
30-Apr-1943 |
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Take Good Care of My Baby |
E. B. White |
Author |
11-Jul-1899 |
01-Oct-1985 |
Charlotte's Web |
Kevin H. White |
Politician |
25-Sep-1929 |
27-Jan-2012 |
Mayor of Boston, 1968-84 |
Harold Wilson |
Head of State |
11-Mar-1916 |
24-May-1995 |
Two-time Prime Minister of Britain |
Louis Wolfson |
Business |
28-Jan-1912 |
30-Dec-2007 |
Business criminal, horse breeder |
Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |